Besieged: The West Humbolt Park Drug Market (Chicago Reader)

A decent article. It'll be interesting to see how the new policing strategy works. It almost reads like an episode from "The Wire." The hyper-concentration of the vast majority of Chicago's crime and drug trade in a handful of neighborhoods on the far west and south sides (see the map below) is both remarkable and deeply tragic. I hope to address this in much greater detail soon. 

For now let me simply make another supplemental observation to the Reader artical. West Side drug trade is a little different than the South Side in that it cators much more heavily to a suburban cliental. Madison, Chicago, and especially North Avenue and Roosevelt Road are all fast-moving arteries between downtown and the more affluent west and northwestern suburbs.